Hide Forgot
Looking through images in eog makes loud noises on my HDD and is frickin' slow. Everytime you switch to a new image in Eye of Gnome, a new ~/.recently-used.xbel.XXXXXX file is written out, synced, and renamed to ~/.recently-used.xbel. With ~/.gtkrc-2.0 containing: gtk-recent-files-max-age=0 this new file that is being written out is empty and identical to the last one... but it still causes constant HDD syncing. Either eog should have a switch or option to turn off updating recently used files, or the mechanism should be fixed not to sync if the new file content is the same as last, or perhaps there's no need to call sync there in the first place (do I really care if I lose the content of the .recently-used.xbel file on crash? I certainly don't...) This is loud, slow, and wastes flash write cycles pointlessly.
Fedora 14 that this bug was reported against is EOL. Closing the ticket; please reopen if you can reproduce this with eog in a newer Fedora release. Thanks!